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Strong's G3528 νικάω (nikao)

Nikao means “conquer” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3528 — kebar (“already”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3528
Language Greek
Linked Usages 49
Books 13

Strong's G3528 Quick Answer

Strong's G3528 νικάω (nikao) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. nikao (nik-ah'-o) v. 1. to subdue {literally or figuratively} It has 49 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include overcome, victory, prevailed, and conquer. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
nikao (nik-ah'-o) v. 1. to subdue {literally or figuratively}
Usage
49 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
overcome, victory, prevailed, and conquer

Meaning and Definition

nikao (nik-ah'-o) v. 1. to subdue {literally or figuratively} [from G3529] KJV: conquer, overcome, prevail, get the victory Root(s): G3529

Original Word
νικάω
Transliteration
nikao
Derivation
Root: νίκη R1: 3529
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3528. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to conquer

Usage: νικἀω, -ῶ (νίκη), [in LXX: Psa.51:4 (זָכָה), Pro.6:25 frequently (חָמַד); in 4Mac ;] to conquer, prevail: absol., of Christ, Rev.3:21 6:2; C. inf., Rev.5:5; of Christians, Rev.2:7, 11 2:17, 26 3:5, 12 3:21 21:7; before ἐκ (RV, come victorious from), Rev.15:2; as law-term (cl.), Rom.3:4 (LXX); with accusative of person(s), Luk.11:22, Rev.11:7 13:7 ([WH], R, mg., om.); of Christ, Jhn.16:33 (τ. κόσμον), Rev.17:14; of Christians, 1Jn.4:4; τ. πονηρόν, 1Jn.2:13-14; αὐτόν (ref. to ὁ κατήγωρ, 1Jn.2:10), Rev.12:11;

with accusative of thing(s), τὸν κόσμον, Jhn.16:33, 1Jn.5:4-5; τὸ κακόν, Rom.12:21; pass., μὴ νικῶ ὑπὸ τ. κακοῦ, ib. (cf. ὑπερ-νικάω).† (AS)

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How Strong's G3528 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nikao, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

overcome Luke 11:22 10× victory 1 John 5:4 conquer Revelation 6:2 prevailed Revelation 5:5

How Strong's G3528 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 24 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3528 (νικάω) appears 25 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3528 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3528 in the New Testament

24 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 11:22 KJV

But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

John 16:33 KJV

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Romans 3:4 KJV

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Strong's G3528 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Psalms 50:6 Septuagint / Brenton

Against thee only have I sinned, And done evil before thee: That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, And mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Proverbs 6:25 Septuagint / Brenton

Neither be thou caught by thine eyes, Neither be captivated with her eyelids.

Habakkuk 3:19 Septuagint / Brenton

The Lord God is my strength, And he will perfectly strengthen my feet; He mounts me upon high places, That I may conquer by his song.

Strong's G3528 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

22 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 3:12 Septuagint / Brenton

The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.

1 Esdras 4:5 Septuagint / Brenton

They slay and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all things else.

2 Maccabees 3:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius the son of Tharseas, who then was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia,

Usage Excerpts

First 49 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3528.

Psalms 50:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Against thee only have I sinned, And done evil before thee: That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, And mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Proverbs 6:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither be thou caught by thine eyes, Neither be captivated with her eyelids.
Habakkuk 3:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord God is my strength, And he will perfectly strengthen my feet; He mounts me upon high places, That I may conquer by his song.
Luke 11:22 New Testament, KJV
But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
John 16:33 New Testament, KJV
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Romans 3:4 New Testament, KJV
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Romans 12:21 New Testament, KJV
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
1 John 2:13 New Testament, KJV
I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
1 John 2:14 New Testament, KJV
I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
1 John 4:4 New Testament, KJV
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 5:4 New Testament, KJV
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:5 New Testament, KJV
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Revelation 2:7 New Testament, KJV
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:11 New Testament, KJV
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Revelation 2:17 New Testament, KJV
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Revelation 2:26 New Testament, KJV
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Revelation 3:5 New Testament, KJV
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Revelation 3:12 New Testament, KJV
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Revelation 3:21 New Testament, KJV
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Revelation 5:5 New Testament, KJV
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Revelation 6:2 New Testament, KJV
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Revelation 11:7 New Testament, KJV
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Revelation 12:11 New Testament, KJV
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Revelation 13:7 New Testament, KJV
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Revelation 15:2 New Testament, KJV
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Revelation 17:14 New Testament, KJV
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Revelation 21:7 New Testament, KJV
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
1 Esdras 3:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.
1 Esdras 4:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They slay and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all things else.
2 Maccabees 3:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius the son of Tharseas, who then was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia,
3 Maccabees 1:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with disheveled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them two minas of gold apiece.
4 Maccabees 1:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from their persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.
4 Maccabees 3:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the passions, and to quench the fires of excitement,
4 Maccabees 6:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.
4 Maccabees 6:33 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly award it the authority of first place.
4 Maccabees 7:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.
4 Maccabees 7:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,
4 Maccabees 8:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The tyrant having given this charge, seven brethren were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and wellborn, and altogether comely.
4 Maccabees 9:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame.
4 Maccabees 9:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thinkest thou not, most cruel of all tyrants, that thou art now tortured more than I, finding thy overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our patience in behalf of our religion?
4 Maccabees 11:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brothers have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.
4 Maccabees 13:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For just as if, had they as slaves to the passions eaten of the unholy, we should have said that they had been conquered by them;
4 Maccabees 13:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
so that seven-towered right reasoning of the young men, securing the harbor of religion, conquered the intemperance of passions.
4 Maccabees 16:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O woman, soldier of God for religion, thou, aged and a female, hast conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and though but weak, hast been found more powerful in deeds and words.
4 Maccabees 17:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes.
4 Maccabees 17:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When it is present, men take example at it; And when it is gone, they desire it: It weareth a crown, and triumpheth forever, Having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.
Wisdom of Solomon 16:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame: For thy mercy was by them, and healed them.
Wisdom of Solomon 18:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So he overcame the destroyer, not with might of body, Nor force of arms, But with a word subdued him that punished, Alleging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3528, grouped by book.

Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
1 John 5 usages, New Testament
Revelation 15 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 15 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3528 FAQ

What does nikao (νικάω) mean?

Nikao (Strong's G3528) is a Greek word most simply glossed "conquer". nikao (nik-ah'-o) v. 1. to subdue {literally or figuratively}

How many times is nikao (νικάω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 49 linked usages for Strong's G3528 across 13 books.

Where can I study nikao (νικάω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3528 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate nikao (νικάω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as overcome, victory, prevailed, and conquer. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3528 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 22 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3528, with linked reader references where each row is available.